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The small child ran importantly to the wood-and-iron church with the letter in her hand. Next to the church was a house and she knocked timidly on the door. The Reverend Stephen Kumalo looked up from the table where he was writing, and he called, Come in.
The small child opened the door, carefully like one who is afraid to open carelessly the door of so important a house, and stepped timidly in.